guilty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   showing a sense of guilt

   a guilty look

2. 2
   adj

   responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act

   guilty of murder

3. 3
   adj

   Responsible for a dishonest act.

   He was guilty of cheating at cards.

4. 4
   adj

   Judged to have committed a crime.

   The guilty man was led away.

5. 5
   adj

   Having a sense of guilt.

   Do you have a guilty conscience?

6. 6
   adj

   Blameworthy.

   I have a guilty secret.

7. 7
   noun

   One who is declared guilty of a crime.

   The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.

8. 8
   noun

   A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

Etymology

From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.